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Re:Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube by munificent on Friday January 25, 2019 @06:29PM (#19003616)
This is literally mentioned in the blog post.

> More recently, people told us they were getting too many similar recommendations, like seeing endless cookie videos after watching just one recipe for snickerdoodles.

Re:Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube by platzer on Friday January 25, 2019 @08:09PM (#19004049)
Just checked my feed of recommended videos and it is still full of Tetris and excavator videos that I was into lately. It would be awesome to be surprised with some extraordinary lectures or documentaries similar to stuff I watched 5 years ago, or so.